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 Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:04 am
"I see..." Serene replied, deep in thought. Superhumans? Why do they want to create something they couldn't even control? Coil and VoltEdge is an example of that, they surely have escaped from the facility. The facility dealt with electricty, why did they pick up electricity as the main ability for superhumans anyway? She felt like there is something not right with it, like Coil is not telling her everything. Serene is usually a person who doubts most of the time, so she shrugged it off as that, they were already friends anyway, why would he lie? Overlooking the fact that he is a villian, She decided to drop off the thought. There were so many questions left unanswered to her, but she will definitely know enough. "This is the Verone Library." Serene sounded surprised, she looked up at the giant building, unsure when did she reach it so soon. "You can recharge here, I barely use the lights anyway. Even if I don't pay, they're too scared to cut off the electricity." Serene said as she unlocked the door. Walking in they would see a reception table on the right, on it would be a pile of books Serene was 'skimming' through. The front of them would be filled with bookshelves almost as high as the ceiling. The inside was decorated was decorated with carving wood of intricate designs. The mess of the piles of books stacked on the floor gave the place a warm atmosphere, Serene herself even wondered why someone would be so scared of this place, but it was probably her scaring them, not the library itself. "The kitchen is at the back, just go straight down there, the bedroom would be right next to it." She directed Coil to the back of the library.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:17 am
"I'm fine Trent I just..." Phoebe's face only reddened as she noticed Vincent's eyes seemed to be locked on her for the briefest of moments. He seems every bit like one of those fairy tale heroes who swooped in at the last second to save the day with no thanks.
Still blushing Phoebe smiled and opened her mouth ready to thank Vincent only to find the words stuck in her throat as Jack's fist connected with the side of the mans head.
Time seemed to slow as The chief of State pulled himself upright again, a hand clutching at his face.
'his eyes...' If they were slightly unnatural before then now they were very unnatural. Glowing blue orbs, cold, ice blue eyes glared out at the rest of the cafe causing everyone to freeze in their places.
"Unlike most people, I can't control my gifts when my head hurts. You have dug your own grave, you filthy piece of trash." Vincent's voice sent a chill of fear down Phoebe's spine. The man who had just moments ago seemed to be ever the prince charming now seemed psychotic.
The waitresses who had tried to defend the man backed away and a great clamour rose as people dashed for the door, pushing others out of the way in aid of their own survival as the cafe itself seemed to spring to life in the mans defence. "Jack, hit the deck!"
A sickening yelp cut the air followed by a sound that could only be described as a 'squelch' rang through the cafe as Phoebe pushed Trent to the floor, toppling after him. A large shard of china from one of the broken tea cups lodged itself in her should.
"Are you ok Trent?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:59 am
Inside the cafe, 'Jack', clone number one, leaped to the floor at Phoebe's word. The Kyle's went down somewhere nearby, and the man looked around him for a way out. Where was back up now?! Things were getting quickly out of hand. He should've known this was another villain, in fact.. The very same. Things had become a little too clear when the stranger's eyes changed so much, and ... well, you really needed not be told what was going on when every object not tied down floated off the floor.
The police had been in the process of leaving. Some of them were paying certain attention to the collapsed, or in the process of, building across the street. One of them cast sideways glances toward the diner. A van had parked up a bit up the street, and it's driver and single passenger stepped out and began walking down toward the diner. One of them was carrying a bonsai tree, a very harmonious kind of house plant. These three particular individuals had something quite clear in common; the exact same face.
A car drove right up to the front of the diner as it was being evacuated, and out of the vehicle stepped two men, both in the guise of 'The Gent', and held shotguns. The trio of clones joined them, picking up weapons from the vehicle, before all five lined up infront of the cafe on the street. And aimed.
The singular BANG of all of them firing struck the ears like thunder, and the diner, with the main focus on Vincent, was rained with bullets. The wide glass windows open to the street were struck through so fiercely the bullets left clear holes in them, till there were so many the windows merely collapsed in on themselves. Whoever did not hit the villain, would hit much of the furniture inside, putting it full of holes. The folk on the floor were quite safe, nobody was pointing their gun down.
It was a few moments after that the bonsai tree flew into the cafe. It landed right on the floor, intended to go near Phoebe. Armand knew of her power now, that ought to help her with it a bit.
[Thank you Ayame >w< heheh]
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:52 pm
Unfortunately, the girls were stuck in the cafe due to a bunch of chairs blocking the door. They began to step back slowly towards the center of the room. After reading Jacks mind, he felt the signal as bullets began to fire at him. "No!" He yelled, stopping the bullets around him but also focusing on preventing the bullet far off aimed at him from hitting the waitress in the way. It bear managed to stop an inch from her face. Vincent panted as he snatched the bullet and looked at her terrified face.
"Y-you saved me, again?" She asked.
"Of course. I'm sorry you had to see that." He told her gently, lightly touching the side of her face. "My powers are very dangerous and when they go wild like this, lots of people can get hurt. Naturally I got angry. I don't like people seeing me like that." He said in a slight haze as if his head was still hurting. He turned towards the door, moving the furniture out of the way and opening the door for them. "Don't worry. I'll stop that mad man who almost got you killed, but right now I'm holding back my powers as best as I can. Please, all of you, get to a safe place."
"I understand." She replied. "Thank you." The waitress said before grabbing him and kissing him, and then kissing him on the head. "I hope that helps, my hero." She smiled with a deep blush before going out the door with the others. As soon as the store was vacant except for Jack and his party, the movement in the cafe got suddenly worse.
"Hmm... I think that kiss helped. That or the painkillers I took earlier finally kicked in." He muttered. "Alright gentleman, back to your spots. Come back to me my wild gifts." He said as the lights stopped flickering and everything started going back to their places, except the bullets and the broken glass. He lifted his hand as his tea glass floated to him, and he himself began floating in the air. "Well, villain, you have managed to make me very angry." He smiled sweetly. "A robber comes in, you do nothing. I do something, and you hit me. I try to defend myself and the people inside the cafe, and you try to kill me, and in the process almost killed one of them." He said calmly, then sipped his tea. "I hope you're proud of yourself."
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:02 pm
Trent was taken aback at what was going on between 'Jack' and Vincent. He just stood there watching until Phoebe pushed him over. He hit the floor hard and turned to see his sister get hit with a piece of China. "You're bleeding!" he exclaimed.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:26 pm
When he turned his head, he saw Trent and Phoebe. He lifted his hand, which lifted her body, and he brought it to himself. "I'm sorry darling." He whispered to her. "This will just take a second." He said, twisting his wrist as the piece of china came out. The wound was then held together with his power. "There." He said, taking her into his arms. "Now don't struggle or else I might lose my grip on your wound. It would be bad if you started bleeding everywhere." He said with a sweet smile.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:02 pm
Phoebe let out a sickening wail as her fingers dug into the ground desperately, why was her body moving by itself. Pain tipped through her right shoulder every time her fingers grappled at the wood for some sort of purchase.
“Trent!” blood seeped further from her shoulder, dying her back a sickening concoction of vermillion red and dark-ish brown. “Trent!” her desperate please became more desperate as she was pulled into the arms of a warm body “Jack?...Trent?”
Weak arms pushed against Vincent in a rather pitiful manor as she tried to once again reach her brother. Her fingers clawing desperately at his coat “what are. You.. sorry..fo-“ Phoebe’s sentence was cut short by an agonizing howl as Vincent wrenched the jagged shard free un another sickening and stomach turning squelch.
Phoebes face contorted into a look of shear agony, even if it was a form of helping her Vincent’s move was still impossibly cruel. Slowly the older Kyle tiled her head, her eyes glazed over in attempt to glare at the man who was now supporting her full weight. His voice seemed so familiar but why couldn’t she place it. “Do I know…you?..”
The seconds seem to crawl by before he eyes finally snapped shut, her body rocking forwards a** it became completely limp, her last ditch attempt to save her brother and their new tag along was nothing more than mumble of shaky words “leave them…alone…” Phoebe had never been good with pain, she still fainted when going for a needle at the clinic.
Subconsciously Phoebes mind was working, mulling over what Vincent had to say. 'He's playing us..those people...all of us...Jack...run get out of here'
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:43 pm
Trent got up and ran over to his sister. He didn't care what happened to him. He was concerned about her. "Phoebe!!" he cried. He looked at Vincent. "What did you do to her?!" he exclaimed.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:15 pm
"I wouldn't do that." Vincent warned. "I removed the shard that hit her. My power is holding her blood in and wound together while still giving it oxygen. Unless you want her in a hospital, I suggest you don't do anything rash. She will be fine. You, on the other hand, will be dead if you cross me, like this stupid clone." He said, lifting his finger to point at the clone as the bullets propelled by Vincent's power fired at the clone.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:50 pm
Coil looked around, he didn't even know Verone had a library, it was amazing. He turned down where she said the kitchen and bedroom were "I think I should go set her down" he said, looking at the still passed out Voltedge. He turned and headed to the back, hoping the bedroom would be easy to find. After walking into a few wrong doors he made found the bedroom, a single bed surrounded by hundreds of books was inside. He finally set Voltedge down on the bed, he took a seat at the edge and sighed, it really was turning into a strange day.
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:08 am
There was a villain with mental powers in the diner. Someone, or something, had moved objects around and the door had become blocked. It prevented the waitresses from escaping, but they did not jump to the floor like everyone else had - instead walking to the villain. The line of clones outside blamed it all on the actions of the villain and his power. In fact, she may have been one herself, to act so stupidly, or just completely in the man's power. It was why, when she was finally let out by Vincent, she was grappled by one of the clones, and they dragged the waitress back in when they all entered the small, though shot up, building. Nothing like a villain's pawn for a hostage.
Every single copy of Armand stared viciously at Vincent, whether or not that was through a mask on their faces. The bonsai tree lay abandoned on the floor, free for thsoe with the power to use it. Jack made no hint at taking in Vincent's words, and his final act was lifting his hand to show, quite ungentlemanly, his middle finger at the villain.
When the bullets tore up the clone, and simply made him vanish on the spot upon death, an unheard scream escaped in their headquarters. Armand was himself was in pain.
The rest of the clones had just reloaded their weapons and a singular pull of the shotgun's mechanisms echoed threateningly throughout the cafe. "We'll exchange this one for her," one of them spoke, and nudged the waitress enough to get a yelp from her. Every second that passed with Phoebe being so close to that mind-bending pervert was uncomforting.
"Would be a fair exchange, if you cared for anyone outside of yourself, wouldn't it? Lil' rascal. Tell us honestly you're here to have a drink for sake of having a drink with full intent of then walking off, and we'll let you. Otherwise throw aside all theatrics, and admit you're an addict after his fix. Don't worry, we'll rehabilitate you." The guns pointed quite accurately then. They all had a death-grip on the weapons, intent on not letting the villain's mental powers out-do their sheer strength.
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:34 am
"Y-your crazy!" She screamed as she was dragged back inside.
"Yes, he is quite the psychopath." Vincent muttered, knowing exactly how to deal with him. It was true that Vincent only cared about himself, but part of that carrying about himself was satisfying his desire for both sex and thrills. Quickly, he switched the safety on all of the guns. "I did just come for a drink. What can I say? I've had a rough day, but you are holding an innocent woman hostage. That is unforgivable." He said, as the broken glass and china began to lift from the ground. "Madam, please close your eyes." He told her before sending different pieces of the shards through the clone holding her. He then lifted the waitress over his shoulder and walked out the door, leaving the rest of the clones behind. "She's alright." He told the civilians, letting the waitress down. "But this one was hit. That psychopath is still in there. His power is cloning, and his true body isn't here so he can't be defeated even if I destroy the clones. Please, go home before he tries to take more innocent people hostage." He said. Of course, the people almost immediately sided with Vincent. The people dispersed as Vincent took Phoebe as a prize and began to head off.
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:04 am
"Oh, so you picked this one then." Serene peered into the room Coil went in, this is one of the rooms that she forgot to clear out, the books here were meant to go up on shelves. "You can recharge here if you want, take your time, if any book interests you feel free to pick one up." She instructed Coil before disappearing again, walking back to the kitchen. Summarizing what had happened since yesterday and today was strange indeed. She met a girl with electrical powers named VoltEdge who then became her friend, both of them went into a battle-- first time for her to go straight into battle too. Now, today she met another friend and almost fought with another villian, such a strange turn of events indeed. The library that was almost deserted, only to have occasional visits from teenagers testing out their courage, now is inhabited by three new people. She counted the doors of the library, wondering why is it created, when she reached the kitchen, she opened the cabinet to only find it empty. That's right... She forgot to buy the instant noodle, sighing, Serene's stomach began to growl, luckily she still had some candies left for the 'guest'. After pouring water into the glass and candies into a bowl, she headed back to the room where Coil and the unconscious VoltEdge is. She set them on the stack of books besides Coil and picked one up herself. "You can eat this if you want, how is VoltEdge?" She inquired looking to her unconscious friend with a look of concern, she looks better now, but Serene always doubts. ((The moment you typed something, accidentally deleted it, and can't undo. ; w ; ))
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:06 am
There were a few brief seconds in which Phoebe fully opened her eyes, her head lolling on vincent's shoulder as the cafe seemed to move further away. Was she moving? Blinking the blue haired hero watched as what was left of the police force drew closer to the entrance, guns drawn and ready to fire on the first to leave the cafe.
This man...he was playing the lot of them. They were nothing more than instruments to him, things he could play as he liked and discard when all other use was exhausted. Power, status even his looks. Everything about him was designed for deception and Trent and Jack, Phoebe not knowing that the latter was dead or that a mass of clones was stood buy waiting for a clear shot at this devil, had just walked right into it.
A low rumbling filed the air as the foundations of the building rocked and thrummed with life. China clattered across the ground and what as left of the glass in the window broke free of its hold in the empty frame "I...wont let anything happen to them.."
In the cafe the terracotta pot containing the small Bonsai house plant exploded, littering the ground with soil and pot fragments. Roots, filled with a seeming mind of their own wriggled and writhed across the floor, pushing past the tiles and delving through concrete to burry themselves into the soils miles below.
Silence lapsed and as Vincent moved further away Phoebe could only struggled to keep her mind focused on the swaying building muttering to herself over and over "It's not them....It's not them" Her face wild with terror "It's not them!" the shout didn't echo far but it was enough to strengthen the woman's own resolve.
The ground cracked and parted, police cars were tossed aside like children's toys. People scattered and screamed as vines pushed themselves up out of the asphalt, wrapping themselves around the buildings outer walls, sealing the gaping windows with a mass of earthy tendrils.
Phoebe's power was spent. Trees always took more then they gave and with a last ditch attempt she tilted her head to face Vincent, eyes completely unfocused and breathing shallow "I...wont...let..you..hurt them.." She convulsed in pain the energy the tree had taken had almost critically drained her.
Burying her face in vincent's Jacket Phoebe fell silent, her mind blank as her body shut down on itself, unable to cope with the demand on her powers. Darkness enveloped her into it's unwelcome state. She had passed out.
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In the violence that ensued one of the roots in the cafe had stayed, carving out a series of scratchy letters across he floor near Trent's feet. It gave a pathetically weak tug at the boys trouser leg before falling to the floor, the vibrant earth colours surface turning a dead ashen colour.
The young Kyles powers were similar to his sisters and if anyone could break through the thick mass of fibrous roots caging them in, it was him.
'RUN'
((...uh...tea anyone o-o?))
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